Facebook down, outage of like button annoys web users

Sept 23, 4 PM, EST: Facebook appears to be down. I have tried to access it several times in the last hour and it is beyond reach. The current message is that not even the DNS request can be honored. A twitter hashtag was launched to give support to the afflicted.

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